Attorney's comments seemingly misconstrued

Your publication of a March 20 letter from Michael Gomez telling soccer coach and accused rapist Stephen Weixler to get a new lawyer was over the line.

Your publication of a March 20 letter from Michael Gomez telling soccer coach and accused rapist Stephen Weixler to get a new lawyer was over the line.

Never I have seen a situation where a person's comments have been more misconstrued than those made by Attorney Thomas Guiney in your March 15 edition. My reading of his comments is that by hiring a recent graduate of Mashpee High School and placing him in a position as coach of a JV girls soccer team, the Mashpee Public School District made a severe error in judgment — it was, in fact, as Guiney suggested, a recipe for disaster.

My reading of his comment regarding flirting was that it was not only the girl in question who was flirting with him, but many others as well. Guiney was saying that Weixler was too immature to handle the situation he found himself in and all the attention he was receiving.

That makes perfect sense to me. I don't believe that Guiney was either blaming the victim, attempting to condone the alleged behavior or use it as a "defense," as Gomez suggests. He was simply trying to explain the circumstances that resulted in this unfortunate event.